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When Koch — the closer he was once traded for — made a comeback attempt with Toronto at spring training in 2005, he dared Miller to get a tattoo stating "I love Billy Koch" across his backside. Koch offered to pay $1,000 to Miller and another $500 to Miller's wife if he went through with it.

Miller took him up on it. When he returned from the tattoo parlor that day, a reporter from The Associated Press met Miller in the stadium parking lot and asked him whether he'd gotten the tattoo.

"We went between two parked cars, I dropped my pants and showed him," Miller said.

When Koch — the closer he was once traded for — made a comeback attempt with Toronto at spring training in 2005, he dared Miller to get a tattoo stating "I love Billy Koch" across his backside. Koch offered to pay $1,000 to Miller and another $500 to Miller's wife if he went through with it.